Gingerbread Men Cookies (12 Days of Giveaways) #ChristmasWeek #CakeBossBaking

Welcome to Day #6 of Christmas Week, a multi-blogger event co-hosted by Kim of Cravings of a Lunatic and Jen from Juanita’s Cocina! Each day we will be celebrating the holidays with a different set of Christmas-themed treats, as well as a fabulous Christmas giveaway. We hope you enjoy this fabulous event. Tune in each day starting today, Monday, December 9th and ending Saturday, December 14th.

Today is the last day of Christmas Week I hope you enjoyed the full week of Christmas treats as well as great giveaways. To end the week I am going out with a bang! I made gingerbread men cookies. This is the first time I have ever made gingerbread men. They weren’t something that my mom ever made as a kid, so I never tried to make them before. This year though, my 8 year old put in a request.

My husband said his mom made gingerbread men cookies a few times when he was younger, so I asked her for her recipe. She got the recipe from a free cookbook the electric company gave out in 1958. So you could say the recipe has been around a few years. I did up the spices a little bit, to give it that full on gingerbread flavor. Aside from that, I kept it the same. These gingerbread men are easy to make thick and chewy or thin and crispy. I like cookies thick and chewy, so I rolled the dough out rather thick, and baked for 10 minutes. If you want the crispier you can roll thinner or bake for a little longer.

I almost have a panic attack when I walk into Hobby Lobby or Michael’s Craft Store. I am not crafty, and very easily over whelmed with stuff like that. So decorating these cookies made me nervous! I had visions of cute little bows and different colors. The bows came out a big mess, and then I couldn’t figure out how to add color and have it still look good. In the end, I think they turned out rather cute. Santa will definitely enjoy a couple of these left out for him on Christmas Eve.

Today’s #ChristmasWeek giveaway comes courtesy of Cake Boss Baking. Cake Boss Baking is the new branded bake ware from Buddy Valastro, the talented chef and baker behind the TLC TV show, “Cake Boss”. Cake Boss Baking features a full line of cake pans, decorating tools, dessert plates and more, with product for all levels of expertise.

Cake Boss Baking is offering one #ChristmasWeek reader the opportunity to win a prize package full of baking tools and essentials {ARV: $260}, including:

***This giveaway is for one Cake Boss Baking baking essentials prize pack (details listed above)! This giveaway is open to Continental US residents only . When the contest concludes, the winner will be chosen by random draw. The winner will be notified through e-mail and they will have 3 days to respond or another winner will be chosen.***

I love your gingerbread men. We make them every single year. It’s tradition to make them but we poke holes with straws before baking, then once they’re done we tie ribbons on them and we decorate our downstairs tree with them. It’s so much fun.

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